Sexual Harassment Legal Guide

This site contains links to information on sexual harassment and gender equity from a wide variety of sources on the Internet. U.S. Military • Important Court Decisions • Educational Institutions Professional Organizations • Other Sites • International UNCG maintains a SEXUAL
HARASSMENT: POLICY AND PROCEDURES site which applies to all members
of the University community. Alternate University
Counsel site, with policy and documentation report form. UNCG also
maintains a Sexual
Harassment Policy site with a complaint form available. Sexual
Harassment Law ...

Sexual Harassment Legal Guide - Trends

Last October, I wrote "Proceed Carefully, Objectively To Investigate Sexual Harassment Claims," for Legal Trends, which discussed traps for the unwary employer. This month's column also discusses investigating sexual harassment claims, however, its focus is narrower--the common defenses to such claims. The 10 employee defenses raised in this article are largely without merit. The article provides employers with suggestions as to how to consider and/or respond to them. 1. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH It is not uncommon for employees to claim that any discipline on the part of the employer infringes upon ...

of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors. In some contexts or circumstances, sexual harassment may be illegal. It includes a range of behavior from seemingly mild transgressions and annoyances to actual sexual abuse or sexual assault . Sexual harassment is a form of illegal employment discrimination in many countries, and is a form of abuse ( sexual and psychological ) and bullying . For many businesses, preventing sexual harassment, and defending employees from sexual harassment charges, have become key goals of legal decision-making. In contrast, many scholars ...

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KUALA LUMPUR - Office bosses in Malaysia who fail to act on sexual harassment complaints from employees will face a fine of up to 10,000 ringgit ($3,125). A bill in this connection was presented in the parliament Thursday by Malaysian Deputy Human Resource Minister Maznah Mazlan. The Employment (Amendment) Bill, 2010, says that not investigating and not submitting reports to the relevant authority will be considered as not acting on sexual harassment complaints, Xinhua reported. Filed under Immigration , News , World | Tags: Kuala Lumpur | Comment Below Davidar settles sexual harassment ... Read More

I had a recent experience with sexual harassment in the workplace. Wasn’t anything that I couldn’t handle and I’m fine with how I ultimately dealt with the situation. What I want to share with you though are the widely disparate responses that both men and women had to the incident. Shockingly, many did not view the unwelcome, sexual comments and obscene gestures by my married male coworker as sexual harassment. Instead, I was accused of being "too sensitive," of "probably starting it!" and called "a big baby" for seeing his behavior as such. In other words, a lot of people have a high tolerance for ...
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Sexual harassment is "subtle rape," or so says psychologist John Gottman. Judging from the millions of dollars U.S. companies are being forced to spend to combat sexual harassment, American men have apparently become subtle rapists and sexual predators on a scale unimaginable even to the most vocal feminists of a decade or two ago. Sexual harassment lawsuits such as the ones brought about by the Del Laboratories secretaries and employees of Mitsubishi make headlines nationwide, but too many companies and organizations still think "that can't happen to us." But it can - and an entire industry has sprung ...
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Address Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Service Academies,” paragraph (b)( 2) “Annual ... 100 percent of the sample and received 3107 (97.1 percent) usable survey responses. ..... counseling and legal services, and the responsibilities of law .... most willing to report to a peer resource (SAVI Guide). ...
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Irrespective of the party in power, it
is an irritatingly intrinsic characteristic of governments to go into prolonged
unnatural slumber over important issues. And everytime it gets shaken up by
events, it invariably presses the panic button and proceeds with a war-time
mindset to correct the huge damage caused by its inexplicable
lethargy. There are many examples. The most recent one is the Bhopal
gas leak disaster case. After 26 years, a Group of Ministers has been formed to
untangle the uncomfortable political web that got weaved around it by the denial
of adequate compensation to the victims and which grew stickier ...
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If you're not in the publishing world, you may or may not be aware of the massive tremors underfoot as David Davidar, a veritable giant in that world (both Indian and international) has been slapped with a sexual harassment lawsuit, and terminated by Penguin Canada, where he was the CEO. He was the man tipped to be the next bigwig at Penguin International, I'm told the only big "brown" name in that world (second only maybe to Sonny Mehta of Knopf), and one to whom much of India's publishe-rati owes much. Even as some of his closest here came out to defend him, his character, his reputation and very ...
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QUESTION: Someone I know was terminated on a charge of sexual harassment, inappropriate touching. There was no warning and the individual was not informed verbally or in writing that a charge had been levied or that an investigation was taking place. The individual was not given the opportunity to address the charge in any way. The individual was simply told about the charge and terminated on the spot. This person was stunned and cannot think of any incident that could be considered inappropriate touching, behaviour, or sexual harassment on any level. Is there any recourse? The person is also very concerned having this in a ...